Blogging from the 2009 WAAC Annual Meeting
The Western Association for Art Conservation (WAAC) held its August 19-21, 2009 Annual Meeting in Juneau, Alaska. The abstracts of the talks, which centered on the theme “Where the Wild Things Are:...
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Second International Mountmaking Forum
Second International Mountmaking Forum Hosted by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC May 5-6, 2010 Reported by BJ Farrar Following the first Mountmaking Forum held in Los Angeles at the Getty...
View ArticleAIC Annual Meeting Review on TheArtBlog
Read an excerpt below of Ethical Principles and Critical Thinking in Conservation by Andrea Kirsh in her June 7, 2011 post on theArtBlog below and then follow the link to the full post. At the...
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2011 WAAC Annual Meeting, Day 1
Austin, Texas. This is where the 2011 Western Association for Art Conservation (WAAC) annual meeting is being held and where I’ll be for the rest of the week (Oct. 19-22). I’m excited about being here....
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Wonderfully WAAC-Y: the WAAC annual Silent Auction
For the last seven years, WAAC meeting attendees have eagerly anticipated what has become a staple event at the annual meeting, the Silent Auction. An idea conceived by conservator and former WAAC...
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Let the Talks Begin-WAAC Annual Meeting, Day 2
Restoration of a video installation, disaster response due to Texas wildfires, conserving a sandstone facade, cold storage of photographs, treating paper collections in 12 Alaskan museums and...
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The value of collaborating with different experts-WAAC Annual Meeting, Day 3
One of the things I’m most enjoying about the WAAC Annual Meeting is the variety of the papers that have been presented. I usually attend conferences that focus on my area of specialization or have to...
View ArticleConservators “Keep Austin Weird”-WAAC Annual Meeting, Final Day
The final day of talks at the WAAC Annual Meeting did not disappoint. There was another great group of talks in the half day session that included practical information as well as papers that discussed...
View ArticlePlying the Trades: Report from NATCC Conference
“Plying the Trades: Pulling Together in the 21st Century,” the 8th North American Textile Conservation Conference (NATCC), met in Oaxaca, Mexico this past November, 2011. Following two days of apropos...
View ArticlePresentations from Anoxia and Microfading: The impact on Collection Care...
Presentations from Anoxia and Microfading: The impact on Collection Care (12-13 September 2011) are now available online and can be found at...
View ArticleArchaeological Conservation at ASOR 2013
Three weeks ago LeeAnn Barnes Gordon and I co-chaired a conservation session at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) in Baltimore, MD. Friends, I loved every minute...
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45th Annual Meeting – Paintings Session, June 1, “A Colonial Portrait and a...
Rusty Levinson’s talk was perfectly fitting as the final Paintings Specialty Group presentation. The talk was informative and had some levity and humor to boot. The portrait (see an auction photo...
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ECPN Interviews: Electronic Media Conservation
To promote awareness and a clearer understanding of different pathways into specializations that require particular training, the Emerging Conservation Professionals Network (ECPN) is conducting a...
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The London Gels in Conservation Conference October 16-18, 2017, “An...
Gels In Conservation A couple of months have passed since I attended the London three-day conference “Gels in Conservation” co-hosted by the Tate and IAP (International Academic Projects, Ltd), better...
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